Green Roof Initiative Colorado

A green buildings ordinance was approved by denver city council on october 29 2018 and took effect friday november 2 2018.

Green roof initiative colorado.

Denver s green roof initiative only requires a percentage of the available roof space to be used for a green roof or solar and the required percentage is based on your building s gross floor area. Proposed green building ordinance 7 d. 11 d city hall chicago il. 1 the construction of any building with a gross floor area of 25 000 square feet or greater must include covering a portion of its roof with vegetation solar panel installations or a combination of both.

Proposed green building ordinance. Denver denver s green roof initiative which was passed last year by 54 percent of voters hasn t resulted in a single new green roof. Belmont buckingham denver co. This law affects all newly constructed buildings over 25 000 sqft any new building additions over 25 000 sqft and roof permits for existing buildings over 25 000 sqft.

Denver s green roof initiative 6 d. What it has done however is basically freeze construction. You can choose to install the smallest solar system that meets the ordinance requirements but then you d be leaving money on the table. Making sense of denver s new green roof law with so many questions about how denver s new voter approved green roof law is to work new questions arise about whether the initiative process should.

Denver colorado a citizen initiative to require the roofs of large buildings to be green or a combination of solar panels and green initiated ordinance 300 was on the ballot for denver voters in denver county colorado on november 7 2017. Denver green roof initiative initiative 300 i 300 commonly referred to as the green roof initiative has been in effect since january 1st 2018. Cool roof definition pgbo proposed. Proposed green building ordinance cool roof 9 d.

8 2017 the voters of denver passed the denver green roof initiative. Green roofs are also cool 12 d.